skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I listen to the audio in the article I can't but wonder how Steve Jobs was so much ahead of his time. And he wasn't even a programmer, yet he was able to see a lot of the stuff that was about to happen in the near future.

Link of audio for the lazy: http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/62010118/download?client_id...

Fun Excerpt:

Steve Jobs: "What is a computer program? Do you know what a computer program is?"

Audience: [Quiet. No answer]

Steve Jobs: "Anybody? No? Sort of?"

Steve Jobs: "It's an odd thing [...] computer programs [...] they're simply ideas expressed on paper." :)
Drupal definitely allows you to get 95% of the most common features done very quickly with contributed modules but the assessment that it shatters if you try to bend it too far is very accurate.

Also, the RESTful API is not fun to work with, mainly because the documentation for it is really lacking. It gives you all the information that you need to do CRUD on standard fields but if you throw date or file fields into the mix, you'll be tearing your hair out. It's also quite clunky and tedious to parse responses from since it responds with entire nodes which can include unnecessary RDF info or multiple languages along with field values nested 3+ levels deep in arrays.
I think all the new Dodge models (even base trim) have keyless these days as well. Hopefully it it catches on for all makes, it's a pretty nice feature.
I struggle with this. I acknowledge all your points, but it doesn't cover the usecases of:
1. Changing ISP and getting a new email address. This is really common.
2. Having multiple addresses (work/home, etc). Also see #1

This breaks password resets and creates a "I want to change my credentials" flow that doesn't exist with usernames. It is especially complicated as emails to the old address won't work/are not accessible.

Most companies want to keep track customers over their lifetime and not have them create a new account when they change ISP/job.

If you want to see an example of this not working at all well, see Apple IDs. The pain surrounding them, purchases, @me.com, @mac.com, changing countries and the attached purchases is inspirational in its depth and breadth.
The Pirate Bay Down for Good?
I'm not suggesting that the tone of the post determines its veracity. I am suggesting that the reaction the post has received here is due to its tone, not to its content. I'm fairly sure most commenters would agree that his ex-co-workers were racists (or, at the very least, extremely thoughtless). I'm not demanding a pitch perfect post on Tumblr at all, merely making an observation about the reactions.
If Keccak isn't vulnerable to a length extension attack, is using it to hash a secret key concatenated with a message a good MAC algorithm? If not, why not?
More core.logic
Well, in the US, no one's buying unlocked bottom-tier iPhones. I don't know about overseas, though. Are a lot of people buying $200 Andoid phones in Europe?
After cutting Ultrabook shipping forecasts by 50% for the year, the 4th quarter shipments are supposed to be larger than the sum of shipments in the first three quarters?

And in this one quarter alone, those shipments will exceed the sales of Apple's laptop line.

Using the numbers in the article (6 out of 12 million in Q4), that makes Utltrabook shipments about 2 million each in Qs 1-3.

Apple sells (not ships) abut 3 million laptops per quarter. That means Apple regularly sells 50% more laptops than the entire PC industry ships Ultrabooks.

Cherry picking that one quarter and conflating sales with shipments still can't make a compelling case for Ultrabooks.

So Ultrabook sales have been dismal and manufacturers are dumping inventory. That won't improve sales unless they slash their prices, which already suffer from razor thin margins.

I don't see the story. Comparing one company's sales to an industry's output (not sales) in one quarter of an otherwise dismal year is meaningless.
This sounds extreme. What was the response from steam technical support?
Sorry, didn't mean that targeted at your directly. I meant in general, for the reader.

"At bottom, everything in the computer is actually some configuration of electrons. But it's not very useful to work conceptually at the level either."

And actually part of my point is that it is all of those things, at once. It's electrons and it's all just numbers and it's text, too. It's not really some of them but really not other things, it's all of them all at once.
still sucks.
Regarding the bits exposed to inputs in Keccak, I read the claim in the same manner as the claim that CTR is more side-channel resistant because attacker ciphertext bits never hit the AES core; here further margin is given by the additional capacity bits. That's my attempt at exposition from the Sponge paper. You would know far better than I would, though; I'm a tester, not a cryptographer.

Regarding length extension, strong disagree; we see the SHA functions routinely abused this way.
They have 300k likes on Facebook. Go figure.
Not directly, but his specific concern with AES is XSL, and he suggests Serpent for more security-conscious users.
Ask HN: Where do you get your stock images?
The best site I've found so far is http://123rf.com/

It seems to have a good selection and its significantly cheaper than other sites I've checked. Anyone have other suggestions?
To me it is a faith-induced form of ignorance - that because you have mastered one of the tiny, tiny subsets of all the world's technical knowledge, you believe yourself to have similar ability in other realms of knowledge as well. Morality and ability become one and the same, especially after the conditioning of hundreds or thousands of pissing matches in which you attempt to prove the same point, over and over: "I'm right and you're wrong." Logic becomes one's drug, because it lets you win and be powerful. Other flaws don't matter because you can avoid those discussions(if you're a white, straight cis male).

But really, it's relatively easy to find people who know a lot of things and can work through deep logic. "Big-picture" judgment and perspective is a lot harder to come by.
Having 2 or 3 twitter accounts is not a big deal for his site. Creating 10000 vanilla accounts would be. Adding that kind of anti-spam methods is a lot of work and not easy to get right.
Last week I was called "white fuck" by a Hispanic teenage invididual hanging out with a large group of his friends, while walking through a public park. Yet you don't see me crying about it on the web or expecting to see it discussed on Hacker News. In fact, I've been harassed many times by Hispanic and black individuals over the last 10 years, as an adult, and almost every one of those times my race, white, was explicitly cited as an epithet. But again, I just suck it up and attribute it to low-class, ignorant, immature people. Not to some grand conspiracy to oppress. There's a heck of a lot of sucky people in this world. And a heck of a lot of decent ones too, of all races, genders, ages. Deal with it.
Mind Maps: The Poor Man's Design Tool
It doesn't talk about statecharts, but statecharts are a great alternative solution to the problems it raises.

I find a statechart-based system to be just as understandable and testable as a pure function, and yet all it handles is state and control -- the supposed source of complexity!

I think you've also hit on why the web has been able to scale as well as it has. Scaling state is really, really tough.
Does the average user even care about URLs? I don't really care about URLs on most company websites.
Yes, it's a fairly large iPad/iPhone app (using phonegap), but unfortunately it's an enterprise app and not in the app store.
Bring every police officer on-duty, making a fair percentage of them as a manual fallback to traffic direction. Have the officers play the part of the traffic lights.
This is Nutella, my attempt to put a sweet topping on Ruby.
I love Ruby inside and out, but as with any tool there are always some "pet peeves" that plague it. Luckily, Ruby is more than happy to let you patch it up, so I created this library to ease some of my pains.

So far I've been adding features as I need them, but I'd be interested at any feedback that the hacker community may have.

On GitHub: https://github.com/gbchaosmaster/nutella
On RubyGems: https://rubygems.org/gems/nutella

Any suggestions on making this library better would be great.
Unless Persona drastically changed in the last couple months, it seems to fundamentally misunderstand the problem of user authentication by assuming email addresses are both canonical and authoritative.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4233391
The Art and Science of Entrepreneurship - Book Review
Neat! I am having a lot of trouble making a character that resembles me though. I'll suggest the genetic algorithm used by the Nintendo Wii and also by some police departments to create composite sketches.

This mechanism gives you an array of 9 random faces to choose from, and asks you to pick the closest one. Using that information, it generates 9 more random faces, but guided towards the features that you've selected. After 10 or 15 rounds of this, you have converged on a near-perfect likeness.

It relies on the fact that I can often tell that a face doesn't quite look like me, but I'm not sure along what parameters. However, when presented with a variant with slightly larger eyes and a variant with slightly smaller eyes, I can immediately select the correct one.
How different is it from saying "Charmin can be found at your local Safeway" at the end of the Charmin ad? Or having an ad for both Transformers and Ford? AOL keyword Pizza Hut?

Maybe it's a "recession thing" which some companies do to spend less, or maybe Facebook is viewed as a marketplace - a kind of "social mall" where tweens hack and network, much like a suburban mall in which teeny-boppers used to shoplift and gossip.

From a marketing perspective, why not have an FB page? You could fill it with the same messages as the rest of your advertising channels, maybe do more with it, and maybe some people actually want to post on your brand's wall.
Hinton is a huge figure in the neural network literature and an important researcher in deep learning. After going through the first week of lectures, I can say he's also an excellent teacher.

The syllabus, draft though it is, indicates the second half of the class will focus on deep learning, a field of machine learning that has demonstrated huge potential.
12th Annual NorthWest Design and Manufacturing Expo, tomorrow in Portland
Facebook Private Messages pre-2010 becoming Public
http://www.rageagainsttheminivan.com/2012/09/facebookfail-fix-for-facebooks-private.html

http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/facebook-not-posting-your-private-messages-1B6071010
Do you think it would make sense to issue X shares for each site, and then split the shares at Y value?

And in real stock exchanges, companies issue shares of the company, so they have real value. InTrade links its share value to the likelihood of something happening - but the goals of websites/startups vary greatly, so it's difficult to set a fixed standard that way.

You might also be able to set up a market in which shares only have value because of scarcity, but I think it would be difficult to convince people to buy them in the first place, which is why starting with funny money might actually be a good move in trying to establish this sort of market.

And should sites be allowed to apply for the exchange? Do you think you could allow the companies that own these sites to sell actual shares to accredited investors using a Funders Club model?
I think that once the OP sues, Kixeye will be supersizing its care cup. It's easy to think you're freer than you are before that process server shows up.
A lot of the smaller drupal modules are unmaintained, buggy, or just plain don't work. Drupal advocates like to brag about the thousands of developers and modules in the ecosystem, but the truth is only the core modules and the most widely used contributed modules are production-worthy.
Otherwise known as lesswrong-itis.
that is another nice site. that and billmonk are a bit different in their goals than settleup.

settleup is meant to be a simple calculator that you can use without creating an account or logging in. if you want something to keep a history then those are good solutions, but if you just want to settle up after a trip with friends you might not want to have to create an account, and might not care about keeping a history. then you're stuck figuring it out on paper or in excel. my intent was to make settleup a little easier than excel and more convenient than other similar sites.
I think google missed big time on Dart, and something like TypeScript is what they should have done. I really find it hard to come up with bad things to say about Microsoft's move, it's a mental cognitive dissonance, but I have to admit, they are doing something very right.

1) it's just JavaScript - winning some CoffeeScript fans

2) regular JavaScript is valid, (just like SCSS vs SASS)

3) it has day 1 interop with vanila JS (Dart just started, and until it has it, it's just a play-with language)

4) TypeScript support for most popular editors (Dart has mostly Eclipse I think, TypeScript has support for everything but eclipse, but an eclipse plugin is just a matter of time probably)

5) TypeScript has a bit more chance becoming a standard, (future ECMASCript 6?)

Well played Microsoft, didn't see it coming...

VS 2012 is actually nice, still I would probably wait for an Eclipse plugin (I'm sure someone out there is already working on it) but this is for me a big reason not to start learning Dart
The system has been in development since 2007, with many iterations to arrive at the current architecture, so it'd be hard to give a particular date.
Letters of Note Book
Did it already start? Is it too late to start?

Also I took a nn class in college so do you think I would get much more out of this?
Nice site. How did you manage to get the data? what are API used?
It's more like 20km of traffic lights being out. These roads are our core east-west arterial roads and the landscape dictates that there aren't many other roads for the traffic to travel on. I can't say why there aren't traffic police out there, but these are once-public roads that have been privatised. Also, these roads are highways, not traffic intersections.

Point of trivia: before the current toll road company was given its mandate, our main east-west bridge (the Westgate) held the distinction of being one of the very few toll roads in the world that stopped being tolled when planned, when the cost was paid off. A few years of free travel, then this company was given the rights to the road just beyond the bridge...
You might want to change that name, Ferrero is quite protective of it.
Washington,DC. The federal government and attendant nonprofit industry are going hard into Drupal. It seems like every dev shop and consultancy is hiring Drupal developers currently. There is a definite talent shortage.
So your first reason is, you wouldn't do it in the ocean? But logically that would be where I start.. and my explanation is that drilling an ocean so to speak is much more easier than drilling actual land. So I have an advantage over you in a way that by the time you reach the depths of oceans on the land I would be further down. Sure it is trickier to operate under ocean and, there are additional costs, but I feel like the above stated benefit is enough of a reason to do it on the base of an ocean.

I too don't know much about drilling.
Automatic bookmark/link organization based on keywords/tags?
Some people hoard newspapers, others hoard garbage... I hoard bookmarks. Bookmarks about anything & everything that interests me in my world such as but not limited to Tech, Economics, Webdesign Tips, SEO, Start-up Help, Meme's, & whatever else under the sun that I enjoy & for 2 years now it has been easily my #1 side-goal to get my entire (probably 83% useless shit) library under one clean cut operating folder without having to go through one by one down the bottomless list of url's I have saved. Chrome manager is good, session buddy helps, but simply put, I am lazy & wish for some robot to do it for me. Does anyone know of any "smart" bookmarking apps for chrome or 3rd party ie mindmeister, pearltrees, stumbleupon, for organizing mass amounts of bookmarks based upon their relevance & article or site headlines/text/topics? Any input would be greatly appreciated...
Turning Tables: ID'ing The Hacker Behind The Keyboard
Closing a sale requires at least three things: you need to get yourself in front of the person with purchasing power, you need to build trust with that person and convince them they want what you've got (much easier if the product is good and you believe in it), and you need to give them enough of a feeling of urgency that they don't delay and talk themselves out of the sale.

The bad news, all three of these are easier to learn when you're an extrovert.

The good news, it's possible to learn all these skills and push yourself to become more extroverted.

A couple good books that help you become extroverted in the right way--How to Win Friends and Influence people (corny/scammy sounding title but a true classic, the tldr is--be genuinely interested in people if you want to be interesting, listen, smile, remember people's names, apologize when you're wrong really quickly)

Another great one is Never Eat Alone, by Keith Ferrazzi. Basically, take people out for casual lunches, but do it ALL THE TIME, try to help them even if they can't help you right now, introduce people to other people who can help them, etc.

Then the hard part, get used to talking to strangers. If you want to learn sales, you have to get over that fear. I'd say start, get used to saying hi to everyone you encounter throughout the day and trying to have a friendly conversation--hard for an introvert, but like going to the gym, it'll make you stronger and that subtle social confidence will pay off in a sales meeting. (Plus, you never know what random interaction will lead to a sales meeting).

Also, to be honest, there are a lot of similarities between closing a sale and dating. The difficulty is that in the second you're selling yourself, so rejection stings a lot more and the approaches can be a little scarier. That said, if you can strike up a conversation with a strange man or woman you find attractive and get them interested in you, you'll have no problem learning to sell any other reasonable product.
Steve Jobs speech reveals Apple had been working on iPad for 27 years
Two thoughts:

1. The level of support you will have to provide is directly related to the type of customers you seek, see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4036118 for some good notes from patio11 on this.

2. Build a great FAQ and keep the features minimal in your application (less options, less to support).
I cannot stand stock images in any context... E.g. biotech or pharma web sites with a (usually young, pretty, female) scientist standing over a lab bench. Or the many ones on MS pages (often amusingly with disguised Mac laptops).

If a company doesn't have its own genuine material to feature and its own damn image, just leave it out!
I wonder what Pinterest's numbers on this are.
Sandia Natl. Labs builds 300,000 Android VM testbed
but the other goes down by the same amount... right?
Forget your fancy data science, try overkill analytics
There are definitely salaried senior Drupal devs in the DC area making $150k.
So can I just go to let's say Barnes and Noble and pick one of these up?
Listen to Steve Jobs Describe the iPad in 1983
Tracking stock pedigree and automatic stock taking.

I was in charge of writing a prototype system in 2007ish of a system with NFC scanners that could be deployed to schools to track children and their healthy choices (checking out exercise equipment, checking it back in, buying healthy food from the canteen, etc). The NFC tokens would be combined with cleverly fabricated dongles to make them more inviting. I was a bit concerned about the privacy aspects as my bosses got really carried away (tracking how often children use the toilet, etc), but it never got past the prototype.

Among some of the research I did I thought that being able to track the pedigree of a single item from manufacture through warehouses, backdock and eventually on to shelves would be amazing - for everyone.

And whilst the item was on that shelf, if each shelf had a reader, then it would be possible to do automatic stock-take of what it was carrying and communicate the results to some centralised system.
Makes sense, Microsoft invented the things after all.
Okay here's my Drupal story. It starts out with me at a Drupal conference. First question I ask is this, "Is Drupal a framework or a CMS?" To which the guy running it said cheerfully, "Both!"

After building my personal site with Drupal, I realized the one thing which drove me nuts was the vast number of modules I wanted to use either had shitty documentation or none at all.

It was basically, "Install this and it works!" Which made me spend even more time either having figure out how this thing worked, or attempting to write my own.

To me, this is not a developer friendly framework. When I talk to my friends who are developers and they flat out tell you there's a STEEP learning curve with Drupal, they're not kidding.

I can honestly say I built a dealer locator from scratch faster than I did trying to figure out how do it in Drupal. Just an example of the stuff I'm talking about:

http://drupal.org/node/38401
I won't say most, but 1400x1050 14" was a fairly common config. Standard issue at work at the time.
You're right that fear of failure prevents many people from reaching anywhere near their full potential.

The working mom thing is a separate issue from representation of women in various industries such as tech. For me, I'm hoping to band together with friends so we can all watch each others' kids and cooperate more and have the whole childrearing thing be more "village"-centered and less of an individual burden.
"Who is visiting a Facebook page for toilet paper."

Well, 300,000 people LIKE it so something is going on.

Based on what little I've done in the social realm and what I've heard from SM consultants, these thoughts are in play:

- "Every brand has a Facebook page so we need one"

- "Our website is just pages and all we can do it update copy"

- "On Facebook we can distribute coupons, run contests, and get people to interact."
The Grunt Fund Calculator
To help you form your very own Grunt Fund, I have create an Excel spreadsheet that calculates slices of pie based on the model in the book.
‘Internet-Use Disorder’ Is Real, But Who Has It?
Show HN: CSSColorPicker.com website is for sale
6th here
See, this is why we need to hurry up and deploy networked computerized automobiles. We won't need stoplights anymore, so this kind of stuff won't happen!
Problem is he didn't do that critical second step, the "burrowing through emails or checking blog comments" for something that links the IP to a friend.

He made the mistake of responding to the criticism of his story's technical implausability by claiming his friend used a procedure of looking up the IP location on a general web database. But those only resolve to ISP-level geolocation, not user-level, as the very post he linked to was later updated to admit.

Would have been better for him to keep quiet and let us all keep imagining exotic solutions.
Senate panel criticizes anti-terror data-sharing centers
+1 for Chrome extension. I don't have a bookmark bar visible by default (too much chrome for Chrome).